Surge in Legally-Grown Cannabis From US, Canada Smuggled Into UK
Published on August 28, 2024
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) says there has been a huge increase in the amount of high-grade cannabis—grown legally in the United States, Canada and Thailand—which has been brought to England by airline passengers on ordinary commercial flights. It is illegal to grow, possess, distribute or sell cannabis in the UK. The NCA said Wednesday that so far 378 people have been arrested this year alone in connection with investigations into cannabis smuggling by air passengers. An estimated 15 tonnes of cannabis has been detected and seized at UK airports so far this year, three times more than in the whole of 2023, and up from just two tonnes seized in 2022....